A Florida police officer has been charged with battery and was fired from his position after a video emerged of him repeatedly striking a woman as she stood handcuffed. The footage released by Jacksonville Sheriff's Office shows the officer repeatedly strike the woman in the upper body after she attempts to kick him while his colleagues stand by and watch the violence unfold.

After the cop has struck her, another police officer approaches the pair and the woman slumps to the ground beside a trash can. Other officers recorded in the video show no visible reaction to the incident.

The CCTV video was captured in the secure entranceway to the Duval County Jail as police waited to process the woman's details, who had been arrested earlier Wednesday evening.

How possible the American Police Officers are so violent? Staying outside of their problem and looking what a videocam shows about performances in these last 3-5 years, we remain astonished in looking not at all justified their behavior. Ok, if a real violent reaction from a criminal start, probably we can justify, but looking this clip, not!

How can refugees' basic needs to be secured? Food, for example. Our new program Aid Zone goes to the country with the highest number of refugees in the world, Turkey. We travel to Gaziantep, about 100 kilometers from Aleppo. The burden of neighborhood.

Petrovice is in the Czech Republic. The small town is close to the German border.Patrick, whose name we changed for security reasons is an undercover policeman. Every day he tracks down Crystal meth traffickers. It is a highly addictive and dangerous drug often referred to as the "cocaine of the poor".

Footage found on a GoPro camera mounted to the helmet of a dead Islamic State (IS) fighter revealed an intense first person perspective of an Islamic State fighter during a chaotic and seemingly unorganized battle with Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. Kurdish Peshmerga forces released the footage and said the camera was found after a battle with IS militants, which they identified the fighters as.The video revealed a side to Islamic State that is rarely seen in official propaganda videos released by the group. The fighters bicker among each other, shouting as panic sets in as they are critical of each others fighting techniques.

There was a turbulent reception for Donald Trump in Southern California on Thursday with some 20 demonstrators arrested outside a campaign rally by the Republican frontrunner for the US presidential election.The demonstrators smashed the window of a police squad car, marched in protest and blocked traffic as police in riot gear tried to disperse the crowd in Costa Mesa.

Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini arrived early on Friday morning for what was arguably the match of his life, at least off the pitch: an appeal against a six-year ban from football over an allegedly irregular payment.

A severe landslide has damaged large parts of a major highway in southwest China on Wednesday (27 April). The landslide is said to have been caused by continuous torrential rain. The potential landslide was brought to local police officer's attention when a patrol unit noticed that the cliff along the changing-Shiqian highway was beginning to collapse.They quickly sealed off the area and directed vehicles onto alternative roads.Not long after the area was sealed off, thousands of meters of earth collapsed onto the road forming a severe landslide.Fortunately, no casualties were reported and the local government is currently repairing the road with hopes to resume normal traffic flow as soon as possible.

A violent day came to a violent end in Paris on Thursday as police clashed with activists occupying a prominent square to protest at labour reforms and other social issues.Security forces moved in to disperse activists from the 'Nuit Debout' or 'Up All Night' movement from the Place de la Republique. Demonstrators have staged sit-ins in the square every evening for weeks. But with their rallies only authorized by midnight, hundreds refused to leave.

A plane carrying 93 passengers skidded off the runway after landing during heavy rain in southern Ecuador on Thursday. It happened at Cuenca airport where the jet had arrived from the capital Quito. Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The United Nations has described the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo as 'catastrophic'. A human rights group estimates that six days of air strikes and rebel shelling in the city have killed around 200 people, around two-thirds of them on the opposition side. The city is split between government and opposing forces. On Wednesday air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Aleppo.

A helicopter carrying at least 13 people has crashed in Norway near the city of Bergen. Local police say the aircraft which was carrying oil workers, crashed onto a small rocky island. No survivors have yet been found. We spoke to Kyrre Styve from the Vestnytt newspaper who is near the scene.

North Korea's top court on Friday sentenced a Korean-American man, who has been held since last October, to 10 years of hard labor for carrying out what it described as espionage and subversion activities.

Helicopter with at least 14 on board

crashes off Norway coast - TV

A helicopter has crashed off the west coast of Norway near Bergen. A number of people are visible in the sea, while the helicopter is stranded on a small island, witnesses told the TV2 news channel, as cited by Reuters.

Norwegian police say at least 14 people were on board the helicopter when it came down. The area has frequent helicopter traffic servicing offshore oil platforms in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast.

The helicopter came down near Bergen, the second-largest city in Norway.

Until a week ago, Russia's battered human rights community would have been hard-pressed to describe Tatyana Moskalkova as one of their own. Now, they are coming to terms with the reality that the 60-year-old former police general — with backcombed, peroxide hair and bright-pink acrylic nails — is their official spokesperson.

By the time Moskalkova was confirmed human rights ombudswoman by parliament on April 22, the monikers "OmbudsCop" and "ombudsman in epaulets" had already caught on. But, for many critics, it's her controversial career as a lawmaker that is more worrying.

In 2012, Moskalkova proposed criminalizing "affronts to morality" following the stunt of punk group Pussy Riot in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. And last year, she submitted a proposal to return the Interior Ministry's former name to Cheka, the security apparatus infamous for mass summary executions during the Russian Civil War and the Red Terror. There was more to it than just a name: Moskalkova wanted the agency to have the required power to "establish order, preserve the country and bring calm and security."

For Sergei Kovalyov, a famous Soviet dissident who was Russia's first human rights ombudsman in 1993, the appointment of a representative of the siloviki — the security and military strongmen not known for pussyfooting around individual rights — is a story come full circle since President Vladimir Putin came to power.

"We now live in a country where an ex-KGB colonel is president and a former major general is our human rights defender," Kovalyov told The Moscow Times. "This is not a crisis, it's a catastrophe."

The French National Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for the country’s government to reject sanctions against Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday. French deputies voted in the resolution 55-44 in what Republican party member Nicolas Dhuicq called a “historic victory” on Twitter.

The resolution relates to European Union sanctions made against Russia in protest of the annexation of Crimea in 2014. It calls for Paris not only to reject the renewal of sanctions in June 2016 but “to begin talks aimed at quickly lifting political sanctions against Russia altogether,” including those against Russian deputies.

The resolution notes that the introduction of sanctions did not ease the Ukrainian crisis, but instead damaged both French and Russian economic interests, told Interfax. The lawmakers also stated that they wanted a two-way dialogue with the Kremlin on the cancelling of Russia's embargo of France's agricultural produce.

Sanctions will not be lifted before Moscow and Paris agree upon terms of a working partnership to fight terrorism, Interfax reported.